I don’t feel like homeschooling is going very well so far this year.  We homeschooled thru the summer, but stuck to the three R’s for the most part.  Art and Music are daily occurances in my home and I don’t have to plan for those. 

When we started officially schooling this year, I had such grandious plans.   We were going to do our 3 R’s in the morning, and I was going to add studies in the afternoon–alternating between Story of the World, Social Studies, formal Art, Science.  You get the gyst.

Its been 2 months, and I still haven’t gotten it together.  We’ve had visitors each month, CAT testing, birthdays(3 in October), not to mention a doctors appts and testing.  Throw in making costumes for Halloween, putting together an 8 minute promotional video for some old friends’ new business(for FREE), and my workload in the family business, and the planning hasn’t happened.

My books are in boxes and not easily available, our supplies are in different areas of the house.   I want to plan, I want to find a good daily rythmn that incorporates the fun subjects(not that Math isn’t fun, but at this level its more rote work than anything).

So today we are skipping our 3 Rs.  We have a field trip planned to see a traveling exhibit about Abraham Lincoln on Wednesday, so we will be learning about him and his life today and the rest of the week.  I had PLANNED to spend a month doing this.  I feel like I have let my kids down by not having my homeschooling act together.

How do you make things happen in your household especially if you are not a born organized person?